convict:?. 



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which often proceeds from lying: idle too lOHgiu 

 tllL' siiii, lir walks to tlif liospital : anil, iVniii the 

 exuriioii, roLiollirr with the tlH)ii<2,hts of blced- 

 iug, blititeriiig, and physic/' he soon recovers, 

 md t^twm to Im iu««ter, to again imdesgo tfee 

 iatigue ^^f doing little or nothing. One of these 

 characters a]i]>Ii('f] for his ticket of leave, but 

 soon ri'tiirned, wisliiuo* a^aio to be employed by 

 his former mu&tcr, if only for his food ; at the 

 Bmm tittL^ 0bge?viiigj tlia* hB titter off be^ 

 fore, in bondage^ 1km he ^iri® nw,. ^asliaUy 

 free — so his fellow servants persuaded him to 

 stnd the ticket back^ and say, ''it wets aU a 

 mistaki'. 



Hie fi^Hiwing anecdote may serve to illtistrate 

 the vmery an vmi ^mg o&cdiliEm« 1^ iprrit 

 dtinkere. A convict "ras once weigl icd by hi:^ com- 

 rades, and the woiglit at tliat time marked with 

 chalk npon the barn dooi'. A short time after 

 this took place, he was sentenced for an oftcnee to 

 an iron gang fcaf sixwdts* After the t^rsa of 

 his ]tniiishnient htad expired, and he re^tui^d to 

 his master, he was ohserved to br in a stouter 

 and more robust condition than ftefore ; his 

 comrades aga.iu weighed him, to see what he 

 had gained in iesb^ if not in my mmH benefit, 

 hy his punish«i«tti j mlum it was ascertained lie 

 had gained tiwenty pounds. As this man Imd, 



